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Playboi Carti’s 2025 album Music includes “Wake Up F1lthy,” with Travis Scott.[1] Its title repeats F1lthy’s producer tag: a beep, then a soft woman’s voice saying “wake up, F1lthy,” (play: F1lthy’s tag, “Wake up, F1lthy”) which Know Your Meme describes as British. The site lists beats for Carti, Bladee and Matt Ox, and points to Zubin’s 2017 “Diamond Rings” as an early example. That does not establish the tag’s first use or F1lthy’s first production.[2]
A producer tag is a short recorded signature that identifies the beatmaker. This selection follows F1lthy, Working on Dying and BNYX through interviews, released records and accounts of their tags online. The producers’ career stories are better documented than some of the voice credits; a familiar tag does not always come with a confirmed speaker. For the older trap tags rage grew out of, see the stories behind hip-hop’s greatest producer tags.
“Wake up, F1lthy” · F1lthy
F1lthy began making beats in 2012 and taught his younger brother Oogie Mane the basics about six months later, the pair told The FADER. Their friends learned together, forming the circle that became Working on Dying.[3] Before Whole Lotta Red he had worked with Bladee and Ecco2k, the cloud-rap artists Complex counts among rage’s forefathers.[4]
The tag’s second life started on TikTok. In March 2022 a user posted the opening of “New Tank,” a Whole Lotta Red song F1lthy produced, followed by the tag; the sound was used in more than 25,000 videos in two months, Know Your Meme counted, most of them people showing off tattoos through a negative filter.[2] The beat itself was so simple, Complex wrote, that bedroom producers competed to set FL Studio “records” rebuilding it.[4]
Then the phrase appeared in release titles. His 2021 collaborative album with the rapper Lucki is called Wake Up Lucki.[5] Four years later came the Carti song. Reviewing tags for The Cornell Daily Sun in 2025, Aima Raza called F1lthy’s “aggressive, distorted and slightly unsettling, just like the music it introduces.”[6]
“I’m working on dying” · Working on Dying
The collective has a tag of its own, the group’s name in the first person (play: Working on Dying’s tag). Raza rated it 9 out of 10 and called it “morbid and nihilistic,” a fit for “the otherworldly, crushed-808 distortion” of the crew’s beats.[6] The name came from a difficult period in member Loosie’s life after his father died, he told The FADER. It became the title of the group’s early-2014 tape, which paired ambient synths with vocals from Lil B, Gucci Mane and intensive care specialist Peter Saul’s TED Talk about death.[3]
In 2018 The FADER found the crew recording in Philadelphia with Lil Uzi Vert, who had spent much of the year making his album Eternal Atake with them; one member estimated they had cut more than 100 songs together in 12 months.[3] That interview does not identify the voice on the collective’s tag.
The tag in Drake’s story · BNYX
BNYX, Benjamin Saint Fort, discussed his work on Yeat’s 2022 project Lyfë in a FADER interview. He told The FADER that year he made sure every beat he sent “did not sound like a beat that he would hop on,” because fans complained that Yeat kept doing the same thing.[7]
His tag, “BNYX,” (play: BNYX’s tag) is how he found out he had a Drake record. He was in a session with Teezo Touchdown and Fousheé when his phone started blowing up: Drake had posted a preview of “Search & Rescue” on his Instagram story, “and you just heard my tag in the video,” he told Complex in 2024. Then a direct message from Drake arrived. “I refresh that shit so much.”[8]
How we chose
This is an editorial selection, not a ranking of every rage producer. It focuses on the three signatures discussed above; it does not establish who first used each sound. For Pi’erre Bourne’s tag and its television origin, read our hip-hop list. VoiceTagGods, which publishes this blog, records tags for producers; its vocalists are here.
In 2025, Carti put the words in a song title. A phrase that had introduced F1lthy’s beats now named a record of its own.[1]